Created for children, Partituur invites kids to run, jump, and play as they participate in this inventive performance game. Jefta van Dinther,. Sarah van Lamsweerde,. Martin Kaffarnik. Liza Witte. Albane Aubry, or. Sarah van Lamsweerde, or. Gerco de Vroeg. Martin Kaffarnik, or. Fanny Lacour.
Gerco de Vroeg,. Laurence Larcher. Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht NL. Performing Arts Fund NL. Encouraging exposure to the arts at an early age can be life changing. Inspiring cultural experiences can trigger creativity, social and emotional learning, and mutual respect. Everyone participates in the creation of a unique score each time the game is running. Every participant gets a fictional name and some individual tasks that will get the show going in a new direction.
In other words, Partituur takes a new shape depending on choices, reactions and positions that each member of this instant community, made of children and adults, make. Partituur is one of the rare conceptual pieces of choreography essentially made for children that manages to create a playful environment for reflection. For the next 35 minutes, in a space furnished with numbered cardboard boxes and shapes outlined in tape on the floor, we listened to fun, kitschy music and friendly voices asking questions and issuing instructions.
Most of the questions were about us. What do you like? What would you like to be? And the answers took the form of motion: take two steps forward, jump, run. Since everyone was listening to the same directions and watching everyone else, the answers were public. Everyone would know if you would rather do theater or construction. Using audio instructions, it guides the participating children and occasionally an adult or two through performing and at the same time watching the performance that they are creating themselves according to the "musical score".
In Partituur , the roles of the participants are constantly shifting, and everyone takes part in the creation of an individual score unique to each performance. Commissioned in by the Tweetakt Festival in Utrecht, Partituur is a rare conceptual piece of choreography, essentially intended for children yet creating a playful environment lending itself towards reflection.
